For every year, there will be six mountain climbers who will succumb to the harsh climb of Everest, and that’s about seventeen times the rate of death caused by skiing and snowboarding accidents together all around the world. Mountain climbing, skiing, and snowboarding are all adventurous and hard-to-participate sports. But why are there so many deaths created by mountain climbing? And in all of those deaths there are about fifteen guides, and mountain rangers, most of them died to help the injured climbers. However, there are more than four thousands successful climbs made by varieties of people from young to old. So should people have the right to rescue services when they put themselves at risk? To me, people absolutely do have the right to rescue services when they put themselves at risk because that is what rescue services are for, to help people when they need it. And it also depends on their current situation, which may affect their abilities to make a decision.
The first basis why people do have the right to rescue services when they put themselves in danger is because that is what
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rescue services are for, to rescue injured climbers. Source three, “Ranger killed during the rescue of climbers on Mount Rainier”, suggests that even though the loss of rangers is dramatical, the number of people they rescued are. As detailed by Seattle Times, “Hall… was preparing climbers for helicopter evacuation… when he fell… ” This shows that Nick Hall became a hero when he sacrificed himself to save four others. In addition, it demonstrates that Nick Hall reduced the potential fatalities from five people to just himself, which also means that he complete his career’s objective. Those who disagree think that we should not sacrifice a professional over someone’s mistake; this argument is wrong because it is obvious that to save the lives of many is a better choice than just to save one. Therefore, the objective of the rescue services is the first reason why people have the right to be rescued when they put themselves at risk. Lastly, the second rationale people should have the right to rescue services when they put themselves at risk is because of the condition that they are in, which affect their decisions and lead to an accident. Source number two, denominated as “Why Everest”, proposes that maybe it’s not the climber’s fault that they were involved in an accident. As specified by Guy Morris, “...they are tired, may have run low on oxygen,...have struggled up the icy slopes of the ‘death zone’ - the zone where there is not enough oxygen for an average human to survive -, and the extreme temperature.” This demonstrates that there are many factors that contribute to a climber getting involved in an accident. In addition, it shows that even the most skilled, trained climbing professional can get to a point where they actually need help and call for a rescue service. Opponents contend that if climbers got themselves into troubles, they should be able to help themselves out instead of having to call for help; this perception should be discounted because it could be not their fault at all, future is unpredictable most of the time. What if a climber, anyone, got stuck in a traffic jam on the way down on Everest and ran out of oxygen, they should totally be able to get help. Consequently, external factors are the second reason why people have the right to rescue services when they put themselves at risk. People do have the right to rescue services when they put themselves at risk because of the rescue services’ purpose and the condition that they were in.
This topic is relevant to today’s society because it is important to save lives, and doing the opposite would just be inhumane. For example, there’s a single mom on a little adventure on Everest, alone, and she fell. Should rescue services help her to reunite with her little kids? Or should they “accidentally” put the poor kids in an orphanage? With the example given above, it is crystal clear that the option to save the mom is the best choice. And that’s why people do have the right to rescue services when they put themselves at risk. There are a lot of mountain climbing accidents happening every day, think about it, imagine how grieving life would be for the unfortunate climbers’ families if rescue services can’t help
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Climbing makes for a difficult expedition, you need to give up the wrappers when you was ascending. You need to give up the heavy things, you need to give up your wrappers, and you need to give yourselves. Sometimes we need to give up our lives to climb the mount Everest. According to snow storm, the energy, the oxygen and the people who desired prove themselves the spring’s 96s expedition to mountain Everest was destined to be the most tragic.
Everest. “The falling ice hit twenty-five men, killing sixteen of them, all Nepalis. Three of the bodies were buried beneath the debris and were never recovered,” (Source 2). This tragedy had occurred all when mountaineering. This is not something rare either, according to Source 1 “Keep Everest Open”, “...Everest exacted a ratio of one death for every four successful summit attempts”. This sport is extremely dangerous if something goes wrong, which means that the chance of death is high. So why would anyone want to risk their life just to climb a
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